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Kokubunji, 2026.01.18

I've just wiped out 30,000 email from an account I've been using since 2004. I found a plugin for Thunderbird that let me extract all the addresses (there were 9,600 of them) but the mail is gone. I similarly wiped out my Google Drive documents, which I hadn't used in more than five years anyway.

Step by step, I'll excise the US tech giants from my life.